Policies and Procedures
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National AfterSchool Association
Description: The mission of the National AfterSchool Association is to be the leading voice of the after-school profession dedicated to the development, education, and care of children and youth during their out-of-school hours.
National Institute on Out-of-School Time
Description: The mission of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time is to ensure that all children, youth, and families have access to high quality programs, activities, and opportunities during non-school hours.
National Institute on Out-of-School Time
Description: The mission of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time is to ensure that all children, youth, and families have access to high quality programs, activities, and opportunities during non-school hours. NIOST believes that these experiences are essential to the healthy development of children and youth, who then can become effective and capable members of society. Our work bridges the worlds of research and practice.
Promising Practices in Afterschool System (PPAS)
Description: The Promising Practices in Afterschool (or "PPAS") System is an effort to find and share things that are working in afterschool programs. The PPAS website is for afterschool program directors who want to improve the quality of their programs.
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Evaluation that Goes Beyond the Data 
Description: This article describes two accessible interactive Web sites that were designed to provide support to educators designing program evaluations. The first site is designed to assist educators in evaluating parenting education programs, in particular. The second site assists educators in designing effective evaluations for any program. These two Web sites offer educators a self-study opportunity to gain new skills and knowledge to support their program evaluation efforts.
Improving Attendance and Retention in Out-of-School Time Programs
Description: The benefits of out-of-school time programs have been well documented, but few benefits can be gained without breaking through the barriers to participation that exist for children and youth today. This brief provides ideas for overcoming common barriers and outlines an action plan to measure attendance and retention in out-of-school programs.
Learning From Logic Models in Out-of-School Time
Description: A logic model can be a powerful tool for illustrating a program's theory of change to program staff, partners, funders, and evaluators. Moreover, a completed logic model provides a point of reference against which progress towards achievement of desired outcomes can be measured on an ongoing basis, both through performance measurement and evaluation. This 2002 brief offers an in-depth review of logic models and how to construct them.
Description: This study synthesizes data from 40 out-of-school time social interventions and programs.
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After School for All: A Call to Action from the Business Community
Description: This position paper advocates for after school programs. It describes in detail the guiding principles of high quality programs. It also includes an extensive bibliography of research literature on after school programs as well as a series of cited facts about the impacts of afterschool programs.
Celebrating 4-H, Youth, and Technology: The Nebraska 4-H Cyber Fair
Author: Fassett, Jamie
Description: The journal article describes how a search for 4-H currricula available on the internet, blossomed into a major event – holding a 4-H Cyber Fair at the 2001 Nebraska State Fair. This eleven-day event demonstrated how Nebraska 4-H and Cooperative Extension use cutting-edge technology and brought a much needed boost to 4-H’s traditional image. It also served as a resource for recruiting 4-H’ers and 4-H Technology Team Members, as well as community partners. It familiarized youth with 4-H opportunities available through the internet and increased knowledge of 4-H among fairgoers statewide.
Child Abuse Prevention Month Resources
Description: These resources will assist you in defining, recognizing, preventing and reporting child abuse.
Emergency/Disaster Preparedness for the Child Care Setting
Description: This fact sheet discusses emergency and disaster preparedness for childcare settings, including an action checklist and other concerns.
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions on how to prepare for and host a safe field trip. It includes, medical supplies list, risk management ideas and the other suggestions.
Description: Finding, selecting and preparing nutritious snacks is a challenge when junk food can be so attractive and prevalent. As parents and youth professionals, we have to ask “Are we helping our children to make healthy choices?” This resource has links to guide adults and youth in selecting healthy snacks, the fuel between meals.
National Afterschool Association Code of Ethics
Description: The Code of Ethics is designed as a resource for afterschool professionals.
It covers responsibilities that the afterschool professional has towards children, families, colleagues and community.
OMK Connects Deployment Cycle Support Yellow Ribbon Programming to Youth
Author: Harries, Kia ; Amber Runke
Description: Helping young people cope with the deployment of a loved one is the focus of this 60-lesson curriculum, emphasizing life skills throughout the deployment cycle. Review the curriculum and companion volunteer training guide, learn how these lessons can be used in a variety of settings with a mixture of ages, and how to involve the family in the conversations after the lesson.
Author: Cross, Charlotte (2 more by this author); Jody Jackson
Description: Sharing NH OMK successful strategies for implementing Tour of Discovery Camps will be the focus of this workshop. Participants will explore the following camp themes: theater, babysitting, aerospace, cooking, and outdoor adventure. They will learn about the development, marketing, delivery, and evaluation of these OMK camps. In addition, participants will generate ideas useful in their own camp program implementation.
Out-of-School Time Bibliography
Description: This bibliography contains citations for all the out-of-school time (OST) program evaluations and research studies that Harvard Family Research Project is currently tracking.
Description: Prevention strategies, research-based overviews, and other information to help communities connect with youth to prevent school violence.
The Cost of Quaility Out-of-School-Time Programs
Author: Grossman, Baldwin; Jennifer McMaken and Andrew Gersick; Cheryl Hayes; Christianne Lind
Description: this study compares the cost of out-of-school-time programs in six cities. Standards for qualtiy programs were considered. It provides a base-line to compare local programs to a national level.
The Use of Insect Repellent by Child Care Programs
Description: This fact sheet discusses the use of and guidelines for insect repellent in childcare settings as well as a sample permission slip for using insect repellent on childcare participants.
Year-round learning: Linking school, after school and summer learning to support student success
Description: This research brief examines the efforts of initiatives that are approaching learning time in new ways and bringing community resources together to provide year-round learning environments.
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Multiple Responses, Promising Results: Evidence-Based, Nonpunitive Alternatives To Zero Tolerance
Description: This Child Trends brief highlights rigorously evaluated, nonpunitive alternatives to zero tolerance that have shown promise in improving school safety and student outcomes.
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In Pursuit of Effective Best Practices for Out of School Time
Author: Granger, Robert (1 more by this author)
Description: Why do some out-of-school programs improve youth outcomes while others do not? What practices seem to make a difference? What are the implications for improving program quality? Bob Granger discusses what is known about these questions, drawing on research in K-12 education, mentoring, and after-school.
Let's Move Faith and Communities! America's Move to Raise a Healthier Generation of Kids
Author: Duswalt, Marissa; Lindsey Jewell, Colette Rihane, USDA
Description: Let’s Move! is a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady, dedicated to reversing the trend of obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier. Everyone has a role to play in reducing childhood obesity, including parents and caregivers, elected officials from all levels of government, schools, health care professionals, faith-based and community-based organizations, and private sector companies. Your involvement is key to ensuring a healthy future for America’s children.
Positive Guidance and Discipline for Afterschool Programs
Author: Manglallan, Sue
Description: When is behavior part of normal child development and when is it a problem? How do afterschool staff redirect the child who is misbehaving? What can afterschool staff do to make a positive and engaging environment for children? Both child and adult behaviors figure into the equation of a positive afterschool program. Positive Guidance and Discipline for Afterschool Programs will look at behaviors and feeling, developmental domains, reasons for misbehaving, setting up a constructive environment, and using positive guidance and discipline techniques.
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Child And Adult Care Food Program
Description: The web site provides information on the USDA Food Program to provide lunch for children in a variety of settings.
Child Care Center Financial Planning and Facility Development Manual
Description: Child Care Center Financial Planning and Facility Development Manual guides the prospective childcare provider through facility selection and management through the basics of financial management of a child care service program.
Emergency/Disaster Preparedness for the Child Care Setting
Description: This fact sheet discusses emergency and disaster preparedness for childcare settings, including an action checklist and other concerns.
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions on how to prepare for and host a safe field trip. It includes, medical supplies list, risk management ideas and the other suggestions.
Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)
Description: The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is a leading national organization working to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States. FRAC is a nonprofit and nonpartisan research and public policy center that serves as the hub of an anti-hunger network.
Healthy Schools, A Guide to Local Action
Description: This tool kit promotes evaluation and changes in the school environment that support healthy eathing and physical activity behaviors. The pdf walks users through the process of affecting change in school health policies and nutrition.
Imagine Afterschool Space that Works
Author: Pardee, Mav
Description: New Jersey School-Age Care Coalition's article on use of sapce in an afterschool program provides suggestin for arranging space for effective use of facilities. Strategies are adaptable to a variety of afterschool spaces.
Introduction to "Guidelines for Healthy Food and Beverages"
Author: Davis-Manigaulte, Jackie (1 more by this author)
Description: This narrated presentation introduces the "Guidelines for Healthy Food and Beverages," a guide for youth program providers. Jackie Davis-Manigaulte, Cornell University Cooperative Extension of New York City, discusses obesity as well as the development and contents of the guide.
Introduction to "Guidelines for Healthy Food and Beverages"
Author: Davis-Manigaulte, Jackie (1 more by this author)
Description: Developed for youth-serving program providers funded by the NYS Department of Health, these guidelines give practical ideas for offering healthy food choices, raising awareness about nutrition, and engaging participants in menu planning and food prep.
Learning From Logic Models in Out-of-School Time
Description: A logic model can be a powerful tool for illustrating a program's theory of change to program staff, partners, funders, and evaluators. Moreover, a completed logic model provides a point of reference against which progress towards achievement of desired outcomes can be measured on an ongoing basis, both through performance measurement and evaluation. This 2002 brief offers an in-depth review of logic models and how to construct them.
Author: Bandy, Tawana (2 more by this author); Kristin A. Moore
Description: This Child Trends brief finds that youth who have not participated in out-of-school time programs are significantly more likely than are their participating peers to live in an unsupportive neighborhood; to spend more than two hours a day watching TV or playing video games; and to have parents who are in poor health, who don't exercise, and who have less than a high school education. The brief identifies individual and background factors that influence non-participation.
Online Resources for Identifying Evidence-Based, Out-of-School Time Programs: A User's Guide
Author: Terzian, Mary (2 more by this author); Hoan Nguyen; Lisa Williams-Taylor; Kristin Anderson Moore
Description: This Child Trends brief can help funders, administrators, and practitioners find evidence-based programs that may be appropriate for their target populations and communities. The Guide provides an overview of 22 resources -- 12 searchable online databases, two online interactive summaries, and eight online documents -- that offer information on a range of evidence-based intervention programs.
RECORDKEEPING FOR SCHOOL-AGE CHILD CARE PROGRAMS
Author: Carter, Steven (1 more by this author); Nancy H. Bull, Ph.D.
Description: Establishing good financial records helps school age care programs demonstrate financial success and program performance in terms of income and expenses. Operating decisions can then be based on solid financial facts.
Take A Stand! Conflict Management & Bullying Prevention Enrichment Curriculum
Author: Newberry, Cheryl ; Charla Bading
Description: This comprehensive anti-bullying curriculum targets five concepts: bullying, communication, teamwork, etiquette, and cultural awareness. Through these topics and in hands-on activities, youth learn skills to help them manage conflict, reduce incidents of bullying and develop life skills. The curriculum targets grades 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12.
Using Incentives to Increase Participation in Out-Of-School Time Programs
Description: This Child Trends brief provides key strategies for implementing a successful incentive program.
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Description: This study examined the relationship between the leadership skills of adult community leaders in rural Montana and their participation in 4-H as youth.
A Profile of the Research Study of Rural After-School Programs for At-Risk Youth and Their Families
Description: This study focused on afterschool programs in two rural counties in a Western state. Both programs offer recreational opportunities, homework assistance, creative arts, and computer literacy activities, with the aim of helping youth gain knowledge and skills that will improve attitudes and behaviors necessary to become contributing community members.
Out-of-School Time Programs in Rural Areas
Description: This Research Update highlights the benefits, challenges, and successful strategies of OST programs in rural areas, based on profiles from HFRP's OST Database.
Positive Strategies for Challenging Behaviors
Description: In this narrated presentation, Pardeice Powell McGoy, Cornell Cooperative Extension of New York City, discusses how youth workers can manage inappropriate behaviors in youth development settings. (18 minutes)
Relationship Between Participation in 4-H and Community Leadership in Rural Montana
Author: Flynn, Allison; Martin Frick; Douglas Steele
Description: Studies on the impact of 4-H on former members generally use alumni as one cohort. In rural states, such as Montana, it is important to understand the impact of 4-H on alumni in these rural areas and the role 4-H plays in community involvement. The study reported here sought to determine the perception of current community leaders in rural Montana and the relationship between development of leadership skills and participation in 4-H. The study found that 4-H continues to influence rural community leaders in Montana, although it plays a modest role in influencing community involvement in all areas except agriculture groups.
Research-Based Recommendations to Improve Child Nutrition in Schools and Out-of-School Time Programs
Description: This brief discusses aspects of healthy diets for children in elementary and middle school. It summarizes the current guidelines and recommendations for child nutrition and provides information for schools and out-of-school time programs about how to measure child nutrition.
Description: The Finance Project is a non-profit policy research, technical assistance and information organization created to help improve outcomes for children, families and communities nationwide. Its mission is to support decision making that produces and sustains good results by developing and disseminating information, knowledge, tools and technical assistance for improved policies, programs, and financing strategies.
The Impact of School Breakfast Programs
Author: Dunham, Trudy (32 more by this author)
Description: For a variety of reasons, many children go to school without having eaten breakfast and by late morning hunger can become a problem with lasting effects. This review of research on school breakfast programs discusses the issues and impacts with such programs.